M-sama: Hello everyone! I wanted to get Trunks Goes to High School out before I put this one out but I didn't want to write that one just yet. Anyway, my cousin got married Saturday so I had to go all the way from PA to Ohio on Friday--with only an hour or so of sleep--and we had to leave on Sunday to drive home.
Trunks: Who cares! **rolls eyes**
M-sama: **glares** I care!
Goten: **rushes over** M-sama! Don't ya have important stuff to say to the readers?
M-sama: **smacks her head** Oh yeah! I tried to put everyone who said they wanted into this chapter but I couldn't. But don't you worry! If you're not in this chapter, then you will be in the next one. I will try to get you in before I put new people who wants to be in here.
Goten: **smiles** So that means if you haven't done so already, go and review tell M-sama that you want to be in the fic.
Trunks: **confused** What is he doing here? Is he taking over my job?
M-sama: **pats Trunks on the head** Don't you worry, Trunksie. Goten won't take over your job.
Never Sleep Over
Chapter Two: Swimming Pool, Here We Come!
Little Son Goten curled himself in a tight ball. Maybe that girl wouldn't find him. That brown hair girl wasn't even supposed to be here. Trunks even said she wasn't. That liar! Little Goten was going to hit his best friend. Goten held the door open slowly. He looked up and saw a shadow figure standing in the doorway. It screamed and backed away. What was it doing? Was that girl going to hug and try to kiss him again? Please no! He ducked back into a tight ball. No way that girl could see him.
Gohan peered into the closet. "Goten? What are you doing here?"
Goten glanced up. "Gohan? Gohan!" He launched himself at his older brother. "Help me! She's going to get me. Please Gohan!"
"Who's going to get you?"
"That girl with the boy name, Phil! She's always trying to get me."
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Phil glanced over at her friend. The tour was almost over. She wished it were almost over. Ashley finished talking and showed the tourist to the tiny gift shop. "Come on Ashley, I've got to find Son Goten."
Ashley flicked her long brown hair back behind her. Her green eyes flickered up at the clock, checking the time. "We can't go find that little cutie now, Phil. We're suppose to meet my brother in five minutes. Adam hates it when I'm late."
Phil frowns. "Forget Adam! We need to find Son Goten."
Ashley glared at her friend. She roughly grabbed her arm. "If he doesn't want you to find him then you won't find him! He has excess to all of CC while you don't."
"But that's why you're coming with me. You have more excess to CC because you work here. Please, Ash!"
"No!" Ashley yelled. They were out of the door and already crossing the street where Ashley's twin brother was waiting. She grins cheerfully at him. "Hi Adam!"
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Erasa rushed over to Gohan's kid brother. "He's such a cutie like you Gohan."
Goten looked nervously at Erasa. Is she just like that one girl? He pulled away from Erasa's hand as it came forward to pinch his cheek. Trunks' grandma always pinched his cheeks when he came over. He hated it! "Who are you?"
"I'm Erasa, with an 'e'."
"What does the 'e' have to do with your name?"
She grins down at the little black hair kid. "Nothing, kiddo, but that's how you spell it."
Goten frowned in confusion. "But why would I need to know how to spell it?"
Erasa, Sharpener, and Gohan wasted the next half an hour trying to explain to the seven-year-old that Erasa didn't really want Goten to spell her name or anything else that might confuse the boy. Finally Videl got tired of Goten asking why, and so she yelled, "Because it's a Erasa thing."
Goten faced lighten up as if he just got it. "So it's a teenage thing that I won't understand until I'm a teenager like my brother?" Videl nodded. At least now she wouldn't have that headache that had been building up anymore. "I wish I was a teenager."
"You don't want to grow up to soon, do you kiddo? I wish I was younger and then I wouldn't have to worry about a lot of things."
Someone started to knock on the door. Everyone stared at it except Goten who ran to the door to let his friend in. "Trunks!"
"Goten, there you are. Mom told me to get Gohan and his friends. They need to go the Zany Meeting Room. Do you want to train with me and my dad?"
"Yeah! That would be so cool! But I don't have my gi with me." Goten glanced down at his light purple outfit that his mother gave him.
Trunks just rolled his eyes. "You can wear one of mine. I'm sure on of my older ones would fit you."
"Okay!" The two boys raced through the hallways to Trunks' room.
Gohan led his friends through the hallways to the Zany Meeting Room. This room was used for student tours where everyone could meet up with each other before the tour guides switch groups or whatever else they wanted to do. The rest of the class was already there. They were looking at a girl standing on a chair. She had black hair, which was a darker shade of the plain black shirt, and black slacks she had on.
"Okay, everyone. I'm Mezzanotte Skia. Dr. Briefs sent me down hear to tell you all that in a few minutes you will get to see what some of the labs here a CC works." She quickly jumped down to blend into the shadow. Mezzanotte didn't want to stay another minute in that room. She didn't need to look at the students to know they were still stare at her. She didn't care, just as long as they didn't try to talk to her.
One student didn't take Mezz's silent message of 'don't bother me, leave me alone' attitude. She toyed with brown hair was she glanced back to her giggling friends. They wouldn't be much help to her. "So, you work here?" Mezzanotte didn't reply to that question. "I guess you do. So…do you know a mister Vegeta? Is he as hot as his picture is?" She bushed at Mezzanotte's glared.
"And you are?"
"KV."
"KV? Is that even a real name?"
KV glared at the girl in front of her. "There are a lot of people who use letters as names. AJ, CJ. What's wrong with KV?"
Mezz just shook her hand in wonder. "Whatever."
Dr. Briefs choose that moment to walk in. "Hello, students. I'm Dr. Briefs." He saw Mezzanotte Skia leaving. "Please, Mezz, I want you to stay. I'm sure you would have so much fun on this little trip. And after seeing the labs, you all are aloud to go for a swim in the swimming pool out back."
The students cheered.
"Now, follow me, students."
Gohan stayed near the back of the group. Dr. Briefs probably would say one tiny comment that would make Videl jump all over him to find out the why of it. Gohan just wished the crazy girl would let his 'secrets' rest. Gohan glanced down at his left arm as he felt it go numb. There was no reason for it to be numb. The half saiyan found the reason--Erasa. Erasa had latched herself to his arm as they were walking. Oh, great! There was no way she would let go now. He glanced around, hoping against hope that someone around them could come to his rescue. But Videl and Sharpener were deep in a conversation about fighting techniques--not that Sharpener was really that good at fighting. And there was no one behind him but there was someone up ahead of the foursome. A short girl was looking left and right as she stood in front of a very valuable one-of-a-kind statue of some famous guy. Her hand reached out to touch the statue. It collapsed in a million tiny pieces. For some odd reason, the sound of it shattering drowned out the conversations going on through the hall. Everyone stare in disbelief at as the girl only said, "Opps!"
A blond girl, a few inches taller than the one who just broke the only known statue of the dead guy--four inches taller than five feet, ran over to her friend. "Lexi! I bet that was really expensive!"
Lexi turn her head, whipping her long mahogany braid around her head. "Karie, don't you think I know that?"
Dr. Briefs pushed through the students to stand in front of Lexi.
"I'm so sorry! I'll pay you back even if it takes me a million years."
Dr. Briefs just patted the black kitten on his shoulder. "Don't worry about it. Just be glad that wasn't a real head or you're be arrested for murder," he said merrily. "Now, lets go to the labs."
Lexi turn to blink at Karie. "He didn't care if I broke it, right? He did tell me not to worry about it, right?" Karie nodded. "Are you sure he's Dr. Briefs, the founder of Capsule Corporation, the maker of capsules?" Karie nodded again. "Are you sure he didn't accidentally made the capsules? Cuz I just realize that that man doesn't have any brain cells!" Karie had to agree with her friend. Anybody else would be yelling at Lexi and hoping to whatever god they believe in that she would pay for the broken statue in full. Well, anybody with a brain that is.
Erasa dropped the hand that was holding in her gasp. "That was awful nice of Dr. Briefs to let Lexi not pay. Don't you think so, Gohan?" Erasa rubbed her head on Gohan's arm as she looked up at him. Gohan didn't reply as glanced down at her.
Videl choose that exact moment to check on her two friends. She felt a little hurt at what was obviously a couple sharing a look. Since when did Gohan and Erasa got together? She elbowed Sharpener in the gut. "Look at them," she whispered to him.
Sharpener looked in the direction Videl looking at. What was Gohan and Erasa doing? They couldn't possibly be together, could they? Erasa was supposed to be his, not the nerd's.
Videl gave the couple one last glare before tugging Sharpener to the front of the group. She didn't want to see them anymore. She didn't know why she felt hurt and betrayed by Erasa, and even Gohan. Videl saw a friend of hers, one she hadn't talked to in quite some times since she was in a different class this year. "Hi AJ."
AJ looked over and noticed the missing Erasa and Gohan. She wanted to say something about it but she was a little shy to ask about it. "Hi," she said instead as she tucked her shoulder length brown hair behind her ears.
"How's it going? Anything new happened to you?"
AJ shook her head. "Nothing really. I'm applying for a job here."
"That's good. CC always needs new employees."
The group arrived at the labs. Dr. Briefs showed them around one of the three touring labs. This one showed several younger scientist inventing new things. One of the scientists, a Miss Gale, was designing a new invention on a pad of paper as she walked around the lab. She mumbled something to one of the other young scientist who was putting something together. The students never would have found out what they would making if Miss Gale had started yelling at the two scientist-in-training who had started asking her too many questions, totally stressing her out.
"That could never fit with these!" she yelled as she pointed to her drawing. Then she grabbed a metal rod another scientist was holding. "And this! We don't need this for the DLD!" Gale threw it across the room.
"DLD?" one of the students asked.
Gale turns around. She gasped in surprise. She didn't know they had a tour coming in today. She looked at Dr. Briefs blushing. "I'm sorry, sir, for the outburst."
Dr. Briefs waved it away. "Don't worry, dear. Our jobs can be very frustrating. I threw a lot of stuff when I was your age." He gestured to the table with parts on it. "Why don't you tell these nice, young students what a DLD is?"
Gale nodded. "DLD is the nickname we gave the Device of Lost Dreams. DLD, when it is completed will be able to play back to you the dream that disappeared when you wake up." She had decided to give the simplest answer to the students. Students these days could be quite dumb, as Gale had found out in the two years she had worked here. Gale, along with the other scientist explain several other ideas they were trying to make a reality before the class left to go back to their rooms to change. Everyone one was very excited, except one half saiyan who was trying to get out of pool time. Gohan knew for sure he would be in trouble if Videl saw his muscles. Maybe he should tell them he couldn't swim.
Erasa, who was still hanging on Gohan's arm, pulled him over to where Videl and Sharpener were talking to AJ and her friends. "Come on, you guys! You don't want to be the last one at the pool, do you? I want to see Gohan in swimming trunks."
AJ's friend, Ashley, quickly glance at Son Gohan. She tried to imagine the teenager in a pair of swimming trunks but the image didn't add up some how. First of all, she couldn't imagine the boy in anything except the long pants and long sleeve shirts he wears everyday. It was like he was hiding something underneath all of those clothes. But what? Ashley then glanced over at Sharpener. She knew without a doubt that that boy would look just fine in anything, and he would look great in nothing. Ashley smooth down the yellow sundress she was wearing. Yellow was her favorite color, she thought as she tapped her yellow covered foot.
Chelsea, also known as C-chan, was also one of AJ's friends. She knew AJ since they were babies. She tugged on a blond pigtail as she regarded Erasa and Gohan. Where they together? C-chan wanted to cry. That was her Gohan! She had been trying to get a date with Gohan since forever. It wasn't fair that Gohan taken out that Angela girl, no it wasn't! She made sad, puppy dog eyes out of her normal cheerful baby blue eyes at Son Gohan. Gohan was taken back by that look. He thought Goten was the only one who could pull of a face like that. "Gohan, are you going out with Erasa?"
Gohan blinked in surprise. "No, no I am not."
C-chan's face lit up like the fourth of July. "Really? You're not dating Erasa?" She squeezed Gohan as hard as she could. "Do you want to go out with me? Please?"
A frown formed on Videl's lips. Why did she feel relieved that Gohan wasn't dating her best friend? It wasn't like she liked the guy or anything. Or was it? Videl didn't want to think about it anymore. She shook her head to rid itself of those kinds of thoughts. She can't fall in love with Gohan until she learns all of his secrets, she told herself. Falling in love with Gohan? Where was that coming from? Videl groan. This wasn't good at all.
Gohan looked around hoping that someone could help him out of this. He saw that no one was coming to his rescue. He sighed and looked at C-chan. She sort of reminded him of little Marron, Krillin's and #18's daughter, especially with her hair up like that. "I, um, can't go out with you. My mom won't let me."
C-chan nodded in understanding. Her dad was like that sometimes. "So," she said laughingly, "since your mother won't let you date, you've got to race a lap and back in the pool with me. Kind of make up for not going on date." C-chan winked as she hustle her friends away and into a hallway she was hoping was the direction she should be taking. She didn't want to get lost and miss seeing Gohan in swimming trunks.
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Gohan got nervous as he stood in his bedroom next to the door. He was already changed, wearing blue Hawaiian flower print swimming trunks. No way could that one single item of clothing hide all of his well-toned body. Maybe hanging a towel around his neck would hide some of it. Gohan quickly grabbed his beach towel and hanged it around his neck. He studied himself in the mirror in the connected bathroom. The towel didn't hide a damn thing! It seems like it only enhanced the muscles in his arms and the six-pact stomach of his.
Sharpener rapped on the door. "Come on, nerd boy. You can't stay in there all day. Who cares if you don't have muscles like mine. Nobody expects you too. You can't have brawn and brains, you know." Sharpener didn't seem to realize he just insulted himself. But Videl and Erasa did. They started cracking up laughing.
"That's so true," giggled Erasa. "You can't have brawn and brains." She fell into another fit of giggles after the first one died down.
Gohan closed his eyes as he reached for the door. He still had his eyes closed as he stepped through the doorway and into the living room. The room fell into silence. He peeked open one black eye to gauge his friends' reaction. It was Videl's face he most wanted to study for some strange reason. The saiyan watched as she opened her mouth and said, "It seems you can have both brawn and brains."
With that statement breaking the silence, Erasa rushed over to Son Gohan to feel his muscles. "Oh my, Gohan. Where did you get these? And why were you hiding them from everyone? Could you flex them for me, please Gohan? I'm betting they look better when you flex them!"
Sharpener looked jealously at Gohan's muscular biceps. That nerd-boy couldn't possibly send hours at a gym working out his arms in between school and home. Gohan lived five hours away! He had no time to work as hard as his muscles said he was.
Videl couldn't take her eyes off of the boy's chest. That wasn't a chest a bookworm should have; that's a chest for an athlete or martial artist or something like that but never a bookworm. She slowly got up from the chair she was sitting in to stand in front of Gohan. Reluctantly, she raised her eyes to meet his black eyes. He was staring straight at her. She blushed as she realized that he had been watching her staring at him, which made her mad to be embarrassed for doing so. She glared at him. "Gohan!" she said a little too harshly. "Why didn't you ever show these off?" she asked, gesturing to his arms.
"I, uh, didn't want everyone to stare at me like a freak." That was sort of true. If everyone knew the kind of power he had, they would think he was a freak.
Videl knew Gohan was telling a truth. That boy couldn't lie if his life depended upon it.
Erasa squeezed Gohan's arm. "Come on! Everyone will already be in the poor by the time we get down there, and the good seats would already be taken." Erasa wanted to prefect her tan. She hadn't had many opportunities to sit in the sun all afternoon and today was just prefect for doing so. The blonde dragged Gohan behind her through the hallways to the pool. It wasn't that hard to find since other students were heading that way in their bathing suits. Videl and Sharpener followed behind them, each admiring Gohan's muscles. Sharpener because he envy them, and Videl because she couldn't take her eyes off of them. For some strange reason, Videl liked the muscles on the boy even through she thought people like Sharpener who sharpens and builds their muscles disgust her to a point. She didn't want to look too hard inside herself to find the reason behind that.
Erasa saw that the doorway to the poor was crowded so she took a left turn towards another door. She dismissed the sign reading "DANGER! KEEP OUT!" and shoved open the door. She gasped in surprise at the picture before her. Before Gohan even realized where they were and who was in that room, Erasa walked into the room.
Response to Reviewers:
KumikoVegeta: The Briefs doesn't really have a lot of pictures of the Sons. It's just that the Sons--at least in this fic--stays at the Briefs' house a lot. With two half saiyans, ChiChi's house probably gets a lot of holes and they stay at Bulma's until it's fix.
Enishi: Thank you! I realized that not a lot of people don't put in the staff. But this is one of the reasons why I choose CC for this fic to take place. Now I'll have a lot of people-places to put in the reviews. ^_^
Joutei: **gets kicked** Take that!
Game Gal: Yes, I'm serious! I am putting people who say they want to be in this fic.
Yugi: What does your name mean in Japanese?
GohanTheGreat: What was your other review? Did you leave it under another name or something?
M-sama: Oh, and if you want me to email you the next time I get another chapter out. Just tell me, okay? I got to go! Lunch is almost ready. Come on Trunks. **looks around of Trunks** Where did he go? **sees Goten zooming by** Oh no! Those little brats are going to eat all of my lunch! **runs after them**